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Still Life in Harlem by Eddy L. Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Eddy L. Harris

My father wants to know if I regret the life I have lived, wants to know too, I suppose, if I regret missing the life I never had. At first ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
Is There Life After Football? by James A. Holstein & Richard S. Jones & George E. Koonce Jr
epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:James A. Holstein & Richard S. Jones & George E. Koonce, Jr.

Affording Life after Football Despite the financial horror stories, most NFL players fare pretty well financially after retirement. Even if the financial stream slows to a trickle, a modest lifestyle ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
On The Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Alice Goffman [Goffman, Alice]

SIX The Market in Protections and Privileges Most of this book has concerned young men who are the targets of the vast criminal justice apparatus, and those very close to ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 29,2015 )
Working by Studs Terkel
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-16 | Author:Studs Terkel

“When you make a mistake, you get three chances. Then they take it out of your pay, which is right. You can’t make a ten-dollar mistake every week. It’s fishy. ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations January 29,2015 )
God'll Cut You Down : The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, Amurder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi (9780698170537) by Safran John
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Safran, John

Plan B So much for the big set piece. I was counting on the trial to settle the questions of what Richard Barrett was thinking that night, and what Vincent ...
( Category: State & Local January 29,2015 )
The Tyranny of E-mail by John Freeman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:John Freeman

Don’t Talk to a Stranger on the Internet Spam is such a universal problem today that its dimensions are hard to properly comprehend. By some estimates, 85 to 95 percent ...
( Category: Engineering January 29,2015 )
Those Who Forget the Past by Ron Rosenbaum
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Ron Rosenbaum

PART SEVEN THE DEICIDE ACCUSATION NAT HENTOFF Who Did Kill Christ? LENNY BRUCE USED TO TELL, in his act, about a Jew who was weary not only of being called ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 29,2015 )
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Harold Brunvand
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Jan Harold Harold Brunvand [Brunvand, Jan Harold Harold]

From Helen Creighton’s 1957 book Bluenose Ghosts, pp. 185–87. This text shares the “portrait identification” motif with many versions of “The Vanishing Hitchhiker.” A variation of the “Ghost in Search ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 29,2015 )
Don't Tell Mummy by Maguire Toni
epub |eng | 2006-12-09 | Author:Maguire, Toni [Toni Maguire]

Chapter Sixteen The check-up at the hospital had gone well, and I was pronounced fit to return to school, although I was to be excused from all sports and PE ...
( Category: Child Abuse January 29,2015 )
The Company Town by Hardy Green
epub |eng | 2010-07-26 | Author:Hardy Green

During the 1910s, the steel industry seemed to arrive at a formula for avoiding industrial strife. The corporations were not above coal-industry-like repression, albeit of a less violent nature: Many ...
( Category: United States January 29,2015 )
The Invisible Line
epub |eng | 2011-01-23 | Author:Daniel J. Sharfstein

THE NEXT DAY, WALL was called back to the committee so that other senators on the panel could question him. Defending his home state, Senator Vance suggested that Wall was ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism January 29,2015 )
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Jill Leovy [Leovy, Jill]

“Code Four here!” Skaggs was back in the squad room talking to one of his bureau colleagues on the cell phone during a break, his tone light with relief. He ...
( Category: Criminology January 27,2015 )
BOWLING ALONE by Robert D. Putnam
epub |eng | 2000-01-25 | Author:Robert D. Putnam

SOCIAL CAPITAL AFFECTS NOT ONLY what goes into politics, but also what comes out of it. The best illustration of the powerful impact of civic engagement on government performance comes ...
( Category: Curricula January 26,2015 )
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Johann Hari [Hari, Johann]

Part V Peace Chapter 14 The Drug Addicts’ Uprising As I tried to find my way through the world of the Downtown Eastside, I kept being told—again and again—that it ...
( Category: Social Policy January 24,2015 )
Why the Dalai Lama Matters: His Act of Truth as the Solution for China, Tibet, and the World by Robert Thurman
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 22,2015 )

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